Today's News

Gardeners get anxious this time of the year. Warm one day, cold the next, the sun coaxes open a little patch of crocus by the path, or we catch sight of an old landscape filled with waves of blooming white snow drops.

This year the show is sure to come early, and the forsythia are not the first to bloom, despite this oft-cited sign of spring! There are other early bloomers to keep us occupied until spring truly arrives.

Mark Owen Cissell received his promotion to major in the Army National Guard in a ceremony on Feb. 10 at the Galt House in Louisville. With 19 years of total service, Cissell is a field artillery officer in the 103rd Brigade Support Battalion in Harrodsburg and lives in Versailles. He is the son of Robert and Doris Cissell and grandson of Robert and Elizabeth Tipton.

Robert Owen Tipton was born on Feb. 5, 1912, and celebrated his 93 birthday at his home in Waddy.

Elizabeth Price Tipton, his wife of 68 years, and four generations of family and friends were there to help him celebrate. Robert and Elizabeth have five daughters: Doris (Robert) Cissell, Judy Tipton, Sue (Owen) Bond, Connie (Jerry) Coleman and Peggy (Lonnie) Cook; 10 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

Rosa Jones (from left) Carol Stine, Priscilla Renfro, Janice Chandler, Sue Ruble and Ann Mullins demonstrate how to decorate Valentine cupcakes during a recent meeting of the Simpsonville Homemakers. Hat decoration will be the topic of a meeting March 13 for the Shelby County Homemakers Spring Fashion Show. For more information, call the Shelby County Extension at 633-4593.

Last Friday night’s game against Woodford County was the kind of grind-it-out contest that Collins Coach Chris Gaither knows his team will have to win if it’s going to go anywhere in the postseason.

That’s why Gaither, in his first year of coaching the boy’s team, didn’t use his timeouts as the Yellowjackets rallied back from a double-digit deficit in the second half. He said he wanted to see how his team responded.

Justus Martin did the damage on the inside, and Lynsey Nichols on the outside, as the Shelby County girls’ basketball team finished its regular season on a roll.

Martin scored 16 points, mostly around the basket, and Nichols added 14 points, mostly from the outside, as the Rockets routed visiting Brown, 63-33, last Thursday night at Mike Casey Gymnasium to cap off their remarkable regular season with their first 4-game winning streak.

The Collins girls’ basketball team, led by an outstanding effort from Aaliyah Wells, closed out its regular season in fine fashion last Thursday night.

Wells scored a career-high 37 points, snared 14 rebounds and collected 8 steals to lead the Titans to a 63-43 beating of Bardstown – their sixth victory in their past seven games – on their Senior and “Pink Out” night.